Example sentences of "[vb base] up [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sheer walls thirty feet high enclose you , the way upstream being a clamber up the smooth lip of a nine-foot dry waterfall that takes you into Upper Ease Gill Kirk . |
| 2 | Cheer up a gloomy garden with tub , sink or bowl of brilliant bright blooms . |
| 3 | Competing bureaucracies carve up a unitary field ( DES , NCC , SEAC ) . |
| 4 | I watched Pa mark the first blade with yellow chalk , pull down his welder 's mask , then winch up the grinding wheel till it just pinged against the right-hand end of the blades , throwing a couple of sparks . |
| 5 | But the not-so-bright can sometimes secure a place if the parents stump up a large entrance fee . |
| 6 | Build up a total heating system room by room |
| 7 | Once you build up a regular routine you will want to get outside whatever the weather is doing . |
| 8 | Clearly such references are not merely longwinded substitutes for a name : they draw attention now to this , now to that aspect of the same person , and so build up a many-sided picture of each character . |
| 9 | Like many animals , birds build up a mental map of their home area from sight , sound and other cues . |
| 10 | Instead of plumping for shop-bought toys , build up a useful box , filled with everything from buttons to old magazines , which children can glue together to make their own sculptures . |
| 11 | I would dearly like to do what one friend I know does , and that is buy one beautiful piece of furniture , or exquisite porcelain , each year from Partridge , who always have the very best , and thus build up a fine collection . |
| 12 | Start with black powder eyeshadow on a fine brush , gently build up a fine line close to lashes and out as far as is flattering . |
| 13 | and and erm a and build up a little bit of er text on just how good we are , and what we can produce , and how well equipped we are . |
| 14 | Now we 've got a formula , so we build up a little table . |
| 15 | You build up a frightening picture of an immensely long , empty passage of time , only to cancel it out with your last breath , leaving your audience thoroughly confused , but clinging to the idea that eternity is ‘ like ’ a great length of time . ’ |
| 16 | It is important that they slowly build up a historical vocabulary , and learn some of the technical terms that will allow them to talk about what they can see . |
| 17 | Some use such a sophisticated system that they build up a detailed picture of their surroundings , effectively " seeing " with sound instead of light . |
| 18 | If you build up an aerobic walking programme you will soon see the excess pounds drop away and you will feel and look fitter and slimmer without weight watching . |
| 19 | In the course of our psychic experiences with the objects of our feelings in our environment we build up an inner world which is peopled by ourselves and the residual images of these objects . |
| 20 | They start off on a barrow in a market and they build up an enormous industry . |
| 21 | For instance , ash we build up an initial market share with a tyre that does not wear out we move away from the long-term profitability because replacements fall sharply . |
| 22 | We must not only abide by a precise form , but also build up the right waves of emotion to give it full human significance . |
| 23 | So our policies are designed to strengthen communities , tackle crime and poverty , build up the common wealth and improve the shared quality of life . |
| 24 | If you are going to be away from work for a period in the future , you will have to pay the full rate when you return to paid employment , so it might be as well to start now , and build up the maximum benefit . |
| 25 | Take a walk around one of the great art galleries of the world and , if inclined , touch up a great master with a spray-can . |
| 26 | Just match up the famous daughters ( right ) with their equally famous mothers on the entry form , by putting a letter in each box . |
| 27 | make a note to check any " odd ones " in other lists later match up the separate lists one against the other to make sure that each list contains a different sound . |
| 28 | Match up the potential customers below with the sort of shop you think they would buy from . |
| 29 | Customers dial up the central computer , effectively making a telephone link via a modem between their terminal and the computer housing the databases . |
| 30 | As Oliver , Davis and Bentley ( 1981 ) remind us : ‘ The ‘ suburban semi ’ is a cliché which summons up a mental picture of rows of red-roofed , roughcast pairs of houses , each with its bay windows , its porched entrance , its ‘ third bedroom ’ above ’ , ( Oliver , Davis and Bentley , 1981 , p , 11 ) , recalling images of small front gardens and bigger rear ones , side garages and garden gates . |